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Senate | March 10, 2015 | Committee Room | Senate Session

Senate will come to order. Sergeant in arms will close the doors.
Members will go to their seats. Members and guests in the gallery will
please silence all electronic devices. Leading the Senate in prayer is
the Reverend Peter Milner, Senate Chaplain. All members and guests in
the gallery will please stand.
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Let's pray please. Lord, thank you for another day where we can come
and bow our heads and even our hearts. Thank you for the grace that
flows down on this day when men will run down the court at the ACC
tournament, when farmers will plant in the fields, where kids where go
to school, and they'll even come here to bless us. We ask for your
protection in your flourishing in all these aspects of our society. We
look to you for strength. We look to you for guidance. Lord of host, you
are the Lord. You uphold our right hand. You say to us, right now,
whether we're dealing with money issues or whether we're running
a nonprofit, whether we're feeling injustice, where whether
we're feeling the tight grip of a poor marriage. Lord, you say to
us, do not fear. I will help you. It's in Jesus's name that we
pray. Amen.
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Senator Berger is recognized for a motion.
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Thank you, mister president. The journal of Monday, March 9, 2015 has
been examined and found to be correct. I move that we dispense with the
reading of the journal and that it stands approved as written.
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Without objection, the journal for March 9 stands approved as written.
Senators, we have leaves of absence granted today for Senator Apodaca
and Senator Blue. We do have a nurse of the day with us today. Shonda
Stacy of Zebulon, North Carolina is with us. Nurse Stacy, if you will
stand and be recognized. Thanks for serving the Senate today. Senators,
upon the motion of Senator Brent Jackson of Sampson County the chair is
happy to extend courtesies of the gallery to the Sampson County Junior
Leadership Group. If you're with us in the gallery today, please
stand and be recognized. Thanks for joining us today. Upon the motion of
Senator Trudy Wade of Guilford county, the chair is happy to extend
courtesies of the gallery to Alamance elementary school. If you are with
us today, please stand and be recognized. If you see the folks from
Alamance, tell them hello. Upon the motion of Senator Brent Jackson of
Samson County, oops, we got that one twice. Let's see here. Upon the
motion of Senator Krawiec and Lowe of Forsyth county, the chair is happy
to extend the courtesies of the gallery to Winston-Salem mayor Allen
Joines. Mayor Joines, if you are with us, please stand and be recognized
today. Senators, on your desk is a memorandum. Everybody should have one
of these. If you will take a look at this memorandum today, on the
second page is your information that's gonna go on the rule book. If
you will all just check that information, make sure it's correct and
if there's changes that need to be made, make sure you get that to
the clerk's office as soon as possible. Reports of standing
committees. Senator Pate, for what purpose do you rise?
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To submit, to submit committee reports.
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Senator you can send forward your committee reports.
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Sorry about all that.
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That's okay.
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We have a page, please? We have a page, Senator Pate, bring it up
himself. There you go. Clerk will read.
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Senator Pate, healthcare committee submits for passing Senate bill 7,
unfavorable as to the bill but favorable as to the committee substitute
bill. Allow seating for food stand customers.
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Senate bill 7

Commerce.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senator Pate for Health Care Committee submits for
passage Senate Bill 114, favorable, Custodial parent party cooperate
with child support.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senate Bill 114-J1. Senator Barringer, for what
purpose do you rise?
[SPEAKER CHANGES]To send forth a committee report.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senator Barringer you can send forth your report. The
clerk will read.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senator Barringer, the Judiciary 2 Committee submits
for passage Senate Bill 53, favorable, City's overgrown vegetation
notice.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senate Bill 53 calendared. Senator Newton, for what
purpose do you rise?
[SPEAKER CHANGES]To send forth a committee report.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senator, you can send forth your report. The clerk
will read.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senator Newton, for Judiciary 1 Committee submits for
passage Senate Bill 78, unfavorable as to bill but favorable as to
Committee Substitute Bill, Off-duty correctional officer concealed
carry. Senate Bill 89, unfavorable as to bill but favorable as to
Committee Substitute Bill, Disqualification notice, physical sale
permit.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senate Bill 78 and 89 calendared. With no further
committee reports we'll move right into the calendar for today. We
have two public bills on second reading on our calendar. Senate Bill
60, the clerk will read.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senate Bill 60, No contact order, no expiration.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senator Bingham is recognized to explain the bill.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Thank you Mr. President. Ladies and gentlemen of the
Senate, I was contacted by a parent of a sexual assault victim, this
victim was assaulted as a minor and the parent was not advised at the
time of the trial that should could get a permanent No-contact Order for
her child. Of course, years later this became a problem, now that
she's 21, she has to look over her shoulder and be concerned about
protecting herself from this person, unfortunately it's her father.
Without a No-contact Order, that's exactly what has happened.
With this Senate Bill 60, which was discussed at length in J-2 and
passed unanimously, this permanent No-contact Oder will resolve this
problem, and I would encourage you to support this bill. Thank you
ladies and gentlemen, I'll be happy to try to answer any questions.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Is there any further discussion or debate? Hearing
none, the question before the Senate is the passage of Committee
Substitute to Senate Bill 60 on its second reading, all in favor vote
aye, all opposed vote no. Five seconds will be allowed for the voting,
the clerk will record the vote. Smith-Ingram, Rabin, 46 having voted in
the affirmative and zero in the negative. Committee Substitute to
Senate Bill 60 passes its second reading without objection, it will be
read a third time.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]North Carolina General Assembly enact.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Any discussion or debate? Hearing none, the question
before the Senate is the passage of Committee Substitute to Senate Bill
60 on its third reading, all in favor will say aye.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Aye.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Opposed, no? The aye's have it. Committee
Substitute to Senate Bill 60 passes its third reading, it will be sent
to the House.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senate Bill 82, the clerk will read.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senate Bill 82, A vital records integrity act.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Senator Bingham is recognized to speak to the bill.
[SPEAKER CHANGES]Thank you Mr. President. Senator Barringer

has framed the amendment. Mr. President, if you don't mind, I think
she wouldn't either explain this amendment so we could move on. This
is--improve this bill. Thank you, Mr. President.
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Senator Barringer, for what purpose do you rise?
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To send forward an amendment.
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You can send forward your amendment. The clerk will read.
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Senator Barringer moves to amend the bill.
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Senator Barringer is recognized to speak to the amendment.
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Thank you so much. As a bit of background, this particular bill, what it
does, is it requires that if there is a document that purports to be a
birth record, that the Register of Deeds would actually put on the face
of that document, "this document is not an official birth
record." In my amendment, at the request of the Register of Deeds
Association, and it is a friendly amendment and I agree with it, concur
with it too, that the section would be amended to say "this section
does not apply to a document or instrument which is attached to real
estate documents as an exhibit." Oftentimes there are birth
certificates that are attached behind, and it would be onerous for those
Register of Deeds to actually go through the document looking for such a
document. I urge your support of this amendment.
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Is there any discussion or debate on Amendment 1? Senator Bingham, your
microphone's still on, just FYI. If there's no discussion or
debate, the question before the Senate is the passage of Amendment 1.
All in favor vote aye. Opposed vote no. Five seconds will be allowed for
the voting. The clerk will record the vote. Forty-seven having voted in
the affirmative and zero in the negative, Amendment 1 is adopted. The
bill, as amended, is back before the body. Senator Bingham, would you
like to speak to the bill?
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Thank you, Mr. President, certainly. The local Register of Deeds in my
county had someone come to him with an unofficial birth certificate from
some country that I couldn't pronounce--I think it had thirty-some
letters in it and other things. And so he began to have some concerns
about the legitimacy of it, as I would. So he brought this to my
attention and I talked with ??, et cetera, and so once this birth
certificate--he had to register this--but once it's registered,
other governmental agencies rely on it as an official document. So this
bill--what this will do, it will have in bold letters, and I think
you've probably got a copy of this, it says "this document is
not an official birth record." So it will notify other agencies of
the danger of what could happen. So there's been other folks who
have contacted me have run into the same problem, and so I would urge
your support. And we've got some further work that we're
intending on doing, research to try to even strengthen this more than we
presently have it. So I would encourage you to join me in supporting
this bill. Thank you, Mr. President. I'd be happy to try to answer
any questions.
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Thank you. Is there any discussion or debate? Hearing none, the question
before the Senate is the passage of Senate Bill 82 as amended on its
second reading. All in favor vote aye. Opposed will vote no. Five
seconds will be allowed for the voting. The clerk will record the vote.
Forty-seven having voted in the affirmative and zero in the negative,
Senate Bill 82 as amended passes its second reading and without
objection will be a third time.
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North Carolina General Assembly Enacts.
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Is there any further discussion or debate? Hearing none, the question
before the Senate is the passage of Senate Bill 82 as amended on its
third reading. All in favor will say aye, opposed no, the ayes have it.
Senate Bill 82 as amended passes its third reading. The amendment will
be engrossed and it will be sent to the House.
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Mr. President?
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Senator Smith-Ingram, for what purpose do you rise?
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I rise to record my vote for Senate Bill 60.
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Yea?
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Yea.
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Smith-Ingram, yea on Senate Bill 60. The final count was 47-0. Thank
you, Senator. That is all for our calendar for the day. Do we have any
notices or announcements? Senator Rucho, for what purpose do you rise?
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Thank you, Mr. President. A reminder to all, especially members of the
Redistricting Committee. We begin at 3:00 today, 5:00 if we should end,
maybe a little after, but the goal is to

Passed Senate Bill 36 and Senate Bill 181 so I really need your presence
at 3 o’clock so we can conduct the meeting efficiently. [SPEAKER
CHANGES] Any other notices or announcements? Senator Hise, for what
purpose do you rise? [SPEAKER CHANGES] For an announcement. [SPEAKER
CHANGES] Senator Hise has the floor for an announcement. [SPEAKER
CHANGES] Thank you, Mr. President, members of the Senate. Senator Ford
and I would like to take this opportunity to ask everyone to attend
tomorrow’s meeting of the International Business and Trade Conference.
We’ll be meeting tomorrow at 4:30 in the Legislative Auditorium, which
is on the 3rd floor here and we will be joined both by Secretary of
Commerce John Skavala and the Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Trotsler
to talk about their international efforts and we hope you all will be
able to attend. [SPEAKER CHANGES] Anyone else? Notices or announcements?
Senator Tucker, for what purpose do you rise? [SPEAKER CHANGES] In the
absence of Senator Apodaca, I’d like to make a motion, let me withdraw
that motion, but I did want to take this opportunity. If there’s anybody
in the Senate that has a blank bill that they’d volunteer now, I’d be
happy to send it to Ways and Means. I guess not. Thank you, Mr.
President. [SPEAKER CHANGES] Any further business to come before the
Senate. If not, the chair recognizes Senator Berger for a motion.
[SPEAKER CHANGES] Thank you, Mr. President. I move that the Senate do
now adjourn subject to the standard stipulations set forth in rule 24.1,
the receipt and referral of committee reports, the appointment of
conferees and messages from the House to reconvene on Wednesday, March
11, 2015 at 2 PM. [SPEAKER CHANGES] The motion is the Senate do now
adjourn, subject to the stipulations stated by Senator Berger to
reconvene Wednesday, March 11th at 2PM. Seconded by Senator Randleman.
All in favor say aye. [SPEAKER CHANGES] Aye. [SPEAKER CHANGES] Opposed
no. The ayes have it and the Senate stands adjourned.